Psychological Types

You are probably
familiar with the kind of situation in which you say something completely
objective and rational, but your partner shows an emotional reaction
and feels personally hurt. Or have you ever been annoyed by your
wife being so utterly down to earth, when you would like to build
castles in the air?

This interesting
but almost incomprehensible phenomenon is well-known. Despite their
individuality people "allow themselves" to be pigeonholed into certain
categories.

Carl Gustav Jung explains
this phenomenon by categorising people into four psychological types.
According to his theory the conscious self knows four main modes
of perception which express themselves differently and more or less
strongly in every individual: the thinking function, the feeling
function, the sensation and intuitive function. They can be defined
as two antithetic pairs: thinking and feeling are rational opposites
(in the sense that they evaluate and judge things). Both sensation
and intuition are considered irrational functions, because they
do not judge, but simply record things. Of course, not all four
functions are equally strong within any one individual. One function
dominates, while the other tends to be "underdeveloped". In order
to become really whole, a person should attempt to develop all four
modes of perception. This is an extraordinarily difficult task.
Jung writes in Psychological Types:

We know that a
man can never be anything at once, never complete - he always develops
certain qualities at the expense of others, and wholeness is never
attained.

In astrology, the
twelve signs of the zodiac are attributed to the elements of air,
water, earth and fire. Liz Greene
considers the four elements to be the "pillars of astrology". They
inform us about the predominant attitude of a person. If an individual's
horoscope is dominated by fire signs, astrologers speak of a fire
type. His or her predominant form of perception is "fiery", which
is equivalent to the Jungian intuitive type.

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